The Importance Of Environmentalism

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Introduction The need for sustainable business practices by corporations around the world is identified to be a result of overall increase in the consumer awareness of the lack of environmental protection and social inequities. Over the last decade the environmentalism has emerged to be a vital aspect due to increasing issues related to acid rains, depletion of the ozone layer, degradation of the land and many more depressing environmental issues. This resulted in increase in consumer concern with regards to restoration of ecological balance by presenting demands for eco-friendly products in countries around the world ( Doyle 1992, Vandermerwe and Oliff 1990 ). business practices by corporations around the world is identified to be a result of overall increase in the consumer awareness of lack of environmental protection and social inequities. Over the last decade environmentalism has emerged to be a vital aspect due to increasing issues related to acid rains, depletion of the ozone layer, and degradation of the land and many more pressing environmental issues. This resulted in increase in…show more content…
According to Peatti ( 2001), there are three phases in the evolution of green marketing. The first phase was called “Ecological”, the second phase as “ Environmental” and the third phase as “Sustainable” green marketings. The American Marketing Association (AMA) held the first workshop on “Ecological Marketing” in 1075. As the result of workshop, one of the first books on green marketing named “Ecological Marketing” was published ( Henion and Kinner, 1976a) .In term of activities, the promotion of environmentally safe/ beneficial products and green marketing started in Europe in the early 1980’s when specific products are identified as being harmful to the earth which caused new ‘green’ products to be introduced. The concept caught on in the United States later and has been spreading steadily ever

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